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The Word Ark Postcards
FOLLOWING is our series of 5 postcards, issued in June 2020 to mark the publication of The Word Ark: A Pocket Book of Animal Poems,
Isolation PoemCards
FOLLOWING is a selection of our Isolation PoemCards, chosen from the many submitted via the comments section on the Dedalus Press Facebook page, during March
The Arts as Anchor
Chandrika Narayanan-Mohan, one of the contributors to Writing Home: The ‘New Irish’ Poets, considers home, belonging and the writing life I had found an aerial
Making Our Own Days: Keith Payne on Frank O’Hara’s Lunch Poems
Poet and translator Keith Payne on a favourite book, Frank O’Hara’s Lunch Poems (City Lights Books. The Pocket Poets Series: Number 19) The idea
James J McAuley, an Interview
WE WERE DELIGHTED to be directed to an interview with the distinguished Irish poet and poetry teacher James J McAuley, conducted by Phyllis Silver in
Mutsuo Takahashi receives Seamus Heaney Award, Japan
We are delighted to report that Mutsuo Takahashi, whose On Two Shores: New and Selected Poems Dedalus published back in 2006 (and reissued only a
Roots, Rhythms & Revelations – Grace Wells on her Writing Practice
Passionate, courageous, incisive, inspiring – poet and fiction writer Grace Wells answers our occasional 7 Questions on Poetry, and gets to the heart of what
Dedalus Press 2020 Vision
First a brief recap of the year just ended, then back to the future! Before we consider the Dedalus Press 2020 vision, let’s take a
